<p>In class, if you see or hear something that is incorrect, how comfortable are you with bringing it up (raising your hand, etc.) to correct the teacher. </p>
<p>I feel like if there was a serious error, I might pose it as a question; like - “Wait, I thought that the Romans had defeated Carthage in the last of the Punic Wars?” But I know some kids who would just straight up say “that last slide on the Punic Wars wasn’t correct.”</p>
<p>Today in AP Gov, my teacher wrote “The Roll of Public Opinion in policy making” - instead of writing “role” - it wasn’t a big deal, but I just kept imagining a roll of bread the entire time.</p>
<p>I mostly take math classes, and it’s really common for the professors to make arithmetic/algebra errors when they’re doing problems on the board. Mostly people just point them out (“Isn’t that supposed to be…?”) and it’s not a big deal. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t correct spelling. </p>
<p>One time I had a teacher who told us wrong things on purpose because he didn’t want us to believe everything we heard.</p>
<p>People always correct math teachers when they make silly mistakes and all teachers when they make spelling mistakes. I’ve never had a teacher get mad over that. I’ve only once seen a student correct a teacher on something actually related to the class. </p>
<p>When I took APUSH our teacher told us something and a student said the book said something else. The teacher wasn’t mad but she made him look up in the textbook. The kid was right so she had us correct our notes. </p>
<p>As long as you’re polite when questioning something I see no problem with trying to correct them. Now if you’re constantly correcting them then I can see them getting annoyed, but then that means they need to review the material again.</p>
<p>You could view public opinion as a wave that rolls over everything and destroys it. I suppose you could interpret the title as “How Changes in Public Opinion Affect Policy Making.”</p>
<p>I don’t really correct teachers, only jokingly. For example, today my AP Lang teacher gave us a study guide (which she rarely does, so it was nice of her) and she put two #8’s, so I told her and told her it was an “invalid study guide” and she gave me a look and said, “Well if you want me to give the quiz without a study guide.”</p>
<p>If it’s something big that affects the problem, I will. If it’s stupid, like a spelling/grammar mistake, I’ll let it go. It also depends on the teacher.</p>
<p>My government teacher makes kids stand in the back for the rest of the period if they correct him. Since I’m in an academy, my class and I have had the same teachers for.the past 2 1/2 years, so we feel VERY comfortable correcting our English and teacher training teacher. They usually laugh, especially if a student yells out" stand in the back, don’t correct the master."</p>
<p>I never correct teachers, as I have a bad habit of thinking I’m the one whose wrong (even when I’m actually right) if someone else does something differently/gets a different answer/etc.</p>
<p>I’m totally comfortable correcting teachers if I know that what they told us is wrong. Especially my math and science teachers- I know how confusing it can be to see one example where a teacher does something wrong because then you’re forever confused on how to find the right answer- and I want to keep my whole class from being confused like that.</p>
<p>Oh I thought this was going to be a thread about correcting teachers about grades since it’s CC. </p>
<p>I am okay with asking teachers to clarify things I thought were incorrect. I guess I’m a little more roundabout with it though. I say stuff like “I’ve learned that __________ in a previous class and I was a little bit confused about ___________ since it seems different than in the past” I don’t actually tell them they’re wrong. The reason is because in middle school I had a ton of problems with teachers when I up and told them they were wrong. I figured, hey, I’m gonna need rec letters some day, so I shouldn’t **** them off. </p>
<p>But I guess it makes me uncomfortable when it’s about grading. Even when it’s a fair argument to make, but idk why. Like once there was this thing where I boxed the answer, circled the correct answer, and wrote the answer on the line for some of the questions, but only boxed/circled answers for other questions. And I got all the ones where I didn’t write the answer on the line wrong, even though I did reach the correct answer.</p>
<p>I will correct my AP Physics and Biotech teachers all the time, generally in the form of a sarcastic comment. I’m pretty close with both of them, especially the Physics teacher. Both of them do it to me all day long so I’m not afraid to dish it right back. (Benefits of a small school: you get to know your teachers and it’s nbd when you do stuff like that!)</p>
<p>My other teachers I will correct if it’s something major, but generally in the form of a question or feigned confusion.</p>
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